Introductory text

Road Traffic

Made 4th June 2008

Laid before Parliament 10th June 2008

Coming into force 7th July 2008

The Secretary of State for Transport makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 89(3)^f1, (4)^f2, (5)^f3 and (5ZA)^f4 and 105(1), (2), (3) and (4)^f5 of the Road Traffic Act 1988^f6 and, in the case of regulations 4, 6, 7, 10 and 11, with the approval of the Treasury under section 105(4) of that Act.

The Secretary of State for Transport has consulted with representative organisations in accordance with section 195(2) of that Act.

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercising the powers conferred by section 89(4)(b), has taken into account the functions and matters specified in respect of that section in the Department of Transport (Fees) Order 1988^f7.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Section 89(3) was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40) (paragraph 63 of Schedule 4) and the Road Safety Act 2006 (c. 49) (“the 2006 Act”) (section 36).
f2: Section 89(4) was amended by the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licences) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1974) (Schedule 1) and by the 2006 Act (section 36).
f3: Section 89(5) was amended by the 2006 Act (section 36).
f4: Section 89(5ZA) was inserted by the 2006 Act (section 36).
f5: Section 105(4) was amended by regulation 10(3) of the Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1420).
f6: 1988 c. 52. See section 108(1) for the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations”.
f7: S.I. 1988/643, amended by S.I. 1995/1684; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant. The functions and matters are specified in columns (2) and (3) respectively of item 5 in Table III (Road Traffic Act) in Schedule 1 to the Order.